$500 reward offered for help IDing Franklin gas station robber

Police are asking for help in identifying this man, who they say could be connected with the gas station robbery after Sandy.Somerset County Prosecutor's Office

FRANKLIN — Somerset County Crime Stoppers is offering a $500 reward for any information about the identity of a man it says is responsible for a gas station theft during the post-Sandy recovery period, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano announced Friday.

At about 1:26 p.m. on Nov. 3, Franklin Township Police responded to a report of theft at the BP gas station on Hamilton Street, in Franklin, Chief Lawrence Roberts said.

The gas station's manager told police a man wearing a cream-colored hooded sweatshirt and a dark-knit hat entered the gas station's office area and took an unknown amount of money from the cash register, the prosecutor's office said.

Images were secured from the gas station's video security system, but police as asking for the public's help in identifying the man, the prosecutor's office said.

Soriano and Somerset County Crime Stoppers In. request that anyone with information regarding this crime to contact the Somerset County Crime Stoppers' Tip Line, at 1 (888) 577-8477, or online at www.888577tips.org or www.scpo.net and click on either "Crime Stoppers" or "TIPS HOTLINE." All calls are confidential.